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Richard Petty Driving Experience

Get behind the wheel of a 600hp NASCAR style race car for the ultimate race car driving experience. Rookie Experience (8 laps* over 1 session)

* Price: From $449

Rookie Tour at Las Vegas Motor Speedway (8 laps* over 1 session)

* Price: $549

King's Experience (18 laps* over 2 sessions)

Satisfy your need for speed while trying to tame the speedway in this high-thrill,18-lap* driving program. Experience of a Lifetime (30 laps* over 3 sessions)

* Price: From $1299

Think you can handle driving 30 laps* of white-knuckled, heart-pounding speed? With the Experience of a Lifetime program you can improve your driving line, increase your speed and consider a career change. The driving experience lasts approximately 3 hours.

Racing Experience (80 laps* over 8 sessions)

* Price: From $2599

You'll receive instruction from our driving professionals and crew on refining your driving line, building speed and side-by-side driving.

Advanced Racing Experience (40 laps* over 4 sessions)

* Price: $3499

The greatly intensified, personal instruction of the Advanced Racing Experience makes drivers who take this 40-lap* program feel like they're ready to take on Richard Petty himself. The driving experience lasts a half day.

Premium Driving Experiences**
Indianapolis Super 16 (16 laps* over 2 sessions)

* Price: $1299
Conquer the infamous Indianapolis Motor Speedway with this 16-lap* program.

Bristol Experience (12 laps over 1 session)

* Price: $449

Defy the laws of gravity in this 12-lap driving program as you experience the 36º banked turns on a half-mile oval.

Bristol King's Experience (24 laps over 2 sessions)

* Price: $849

Increase your speed at this 24-lap program driving the "World's Fastest Half-Mile". You will receive one-on-one feedback on your driving and additional instruction between sessions.

Daytona Super 16 (16 laps* over 2 sessions)

* Price: $1299

Grip the wheel of a NASCAR-style stock car for 16 laps* around the world-famous Daytona International Speedway.

Driving a NASCAR-style stock car for 16 adrenaline-packed laps* around Talladega Superspeedway, the largest oval track on our circuit.

Talladega Experience (24 laps* over 3 sessions)

All race car driving experiences are lead-follow.

Richard Petty Ride-Along Experience

The Ride of Your Life

Price:

2. $109 Ride-Alongs at most locations
3. $135 - Indianapolis (reservations required)
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6. 8. $149 - Race Weekend Ride-Along at most locations (reservations required) **
10. $159 - Race Weekend Ride-Along at Las Vegas Motor Speedway (reservations required) **
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**The Race Weekend Ride-Along (Race Rides) follows a different format than the regular Ride-Along Experience.

For further policy details please see the Richard Petty Driving Experience Terms and Conditions policy and our Frequently Asked Questions.

* Sales Tax applies where applicable.

Locations:

Atlanta Motor Speedway
Hampton, Georgia

Auto Club Speedway
Fontana, California

Gateway International Raceway (St. Madison, Illinois

Homestead, Florida

Indianapolis, Indiana

Las Vegas, Nevada

Michigan International Speedway
Brooklyn, Michigan

Nashville Superspeedway
Lebanon, Tennessee

New Hampshire Motor Speedway
Fountain, Colorado

Phoenix International Raceway
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Why do professional camcorders use tapes and not hard drive?

I am looking to buy a professional camcorder, and am just wondering why they all use tapes and not hard drives? Does using tapes offer better quality? Also, what is a good professional camcorder to buy?
I have a budget of about £18,000 for 5 cameras.

Your right, Tape based camcorders do produce a much higher quality video. Until you start to get into the higher end such as Red a basic camera would be around $30, 000 certainly out of my price range.

So us mortals have to use the best we can, its all down to compression, the more the video is compressed the less information in actually saved. Sure tape based video is compress but we are talking about the amount of compression, uncompressed video runs at about 85GB per hour, there are not many flash drive camcorders that can one hold this amount of data, two can handle the data transfer rate. Hard drive cameras are not much better obviously they can save/hold more.

If you watch outside broadcasts, you will see many tape based camcorders, even documentaries will use them. are you looking for a "professional" camcorder or a "prosumer" camcorder. the latter is more of a half way between the two, most people (unless you are a trained camera man) would opt for this type of camera, they give you the best of both worlds automatic features such as exposure and focus, but also to be able to use manual controls. the more you pay the better the quality but the less things there are to help you out.

You do not give a budget, but you would need to start at around $2500 minimum, then work upwards.

Canon, Sony make good quality equipment, but obviously other manufacturers do have cameras for that market.

Again with out a budget there is no point in suggesting a $3000 camera when you only want to pay $1000 or 500

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